Community Profiles
Community Profiles
![An architect’s rendering of the planned Towne Shoppes of Longmeadow.](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/916-William-St-Option-B-Overall-768x432.jpg)
Community Spotlight There were more than 800 people at Longmeadow’s recent special town meeting in the high-school gym. They were there to consider 30 warrant items, most of them of […]
![Craig and Pat Sweitzer](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Monson_8666-768x432.jpg)
Community Spotlight “Sophisticated rural.” That’s how Craig Sweitzer, who has lived and worked in Monson for more than 40 years now — and served on the town’s Planning Board for […]
![Al Enchill, seen here with his son, Auric](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Pittsfield-3-768x432.jpg)
Community Spotlight Rebecca Brien grew up in Berkshire County and has lived in Pittsfield for more than 30 years now. She’s old enough to remember what it was like downtown […]
![Robin Grimm says Sturbridge appealed to her for many reasons](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Sturbridge1_8589-768x432.jpg)
Community Spotlight Officials in many different communities like to say they’re ‘at the crossroads’ — of their region or even New England. In Sturbridge … they mean it. Indeed, this […]
![MCLA President James Birge](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/NorthAdamsMCLA-768x432.jpg)
Community Spotlight Jennifer Macksey grew up North Adams, and she’s seen some profound changes in her 50 years — and from many perspectives. As a young girl, she remembers […]
![mixed-use facility taking shape on Main Street in Wilbraham](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/WilbrahamBuild_8536-768x432.jpg)
Community Spotlight The students have started calling it the “Harry Potter dining hall,” and with good reason. That’s the look that will be created by an ambitious initiative to transform […]
![A.J. Crane](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/LudlowInterior_8476-768x432.jpg)
Community Spotlight As he led BusinessWest on a tour of what’s known as the ‘carpentry building’ at the Ludlow Mills complex, A.J. Crane walked up a deteriorated but […]
![Mayor Will Reichelt](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Reichelt-mayor-Horiz-768x432.jpg)
Community Spotlight Once the 17 days of the Big E Fair begin, Gene Cassidy settles into a routine he’s followed for years now. His day starts early, with a […]
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Community Spotlight As he reflected on 16 years in office and his intention to serve another four, Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno said that, while much has been accomplished during […]
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Community Spotlight It’s called WorkHub on Union. This is an ambitious project to create co-working space at the Easthampton Chamber of Commerce facility on Union Street. WorkHub will create space […]
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An Uphill Climb Dan Moriarty was among the participants in the recent IRONMAN competition that wound its way through many Western Mass. communities. The president and CEO of Monson Savings […]
![Chris Willenborg stands in front of one of the private jets](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/WestfieldAirHoriz-768x432.jpg)
Community Spotlight The F-35 stealth fighter is nicknamed ‘Lightning,’ and it is certainly expected to provide a powerful surge in Westfield. The Pentagon announced in April that 18 F-35A fighters […]
![Bill Laplante](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ELongConstruct-768x432.jpg)
Community Spotlight For more than 35 years now, the property at 330 Chestnut St. in East Longmeadow, known colloquially as the Package Machinery complex, has been the subject of question […]
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Putting the Focus on Community Thomas Meshako acknowledged it was a quite a change moving from the large, regional institutions where he worked the first 30 or so years of […]
![Brolin Winning, general manager of the Shelburne Springs](https://businesswest.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/County1a-768x432.jpg)
Northern Exposure Brolin Winning and his wife used to run a barbecue stand on the Mohawk Trail, and he’d occasionally look up at the abandoned building next door, a mansion […]